As estratégias de resposta á seca de 2012 a 2016 na sede municipal de Quixeramobim Ceará

Abstract

The drought in the Northeast region from 2012 to 2016 represents the lowest rainfall in the last hundred years and during that period several response strategies were adopted by the municipalities. However due to the emergency nature and the need for rapid responses many of these mitigation strategies were not recorded and part of the information is only present in the memory of the managers. This becomes a problem because the paradigm shift from emergency measures to proactive measures in order to more efficient management needs records of drought coexistence in order to organize ,guide and establish a sequence of decisions to be adopted. For the diagnosis and analysis of mitigation strategies in the municipality of Quixeramobim, the managers´ experiences werw recorded through interviews so that agents involved narrate their experiences and thus systematize the reports in written form, also collected photographic records and data that illustrate and help understand how society was living with drought drought this period. Througt these records many records impacts were observed such as the increase of water cost, reduction of water quality, increase of expenses and reduction of revenues. In addition, simulations were carried out that demonstrate and prove the risk of system failure to severe droughts using the current demands of the municipality in order to mitigating future droughts and make management even more efficient through past experiences.